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11:00 AM ET 12.05 | Mark Brooks is a thoughtful, articulate man. He is sensitive yet deeply opinionated. Get him started on modern golf equipment, he may never stop. The big campaign for Brooks is the golf ball. He, along with many traditionalists who enjoy working the ball and creating a multitude of different shots, would like to see spin put back into the ball. Among other consequences, this would reintroduce the slice to golf. With today's low-spinning, dead-straight golf balls, the slice has disappeared from the game. Sure, shots still go to the right because they are pushed or blocked, but they fly straight right rather than slicing out of control. "It would put more emphasis on shotmaking, which would be a good thing," Brooks said. "I've been screaming about it for some time, but it hasn't done any good." It hasn't done any good because the U.S. Golf Association failed to control the golf ball. For all the positive achievements of the USGA, the organization flatly failed to comprehend the ingenuity of the golf ball companies. Along the way, golf turned into a straight-line game. A new philosophy emerged: Aim it at your target and swing like hell. Brooks contends that an element of skill was removed from the game. Controlling the ball became too simple.

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